This is a major issue that Beto O'Rourke is using against Gov. Abbot in his challenge to Abbot's reelection. This recent cold spell wasn't severe enough to trigger another such outage, but winter isn't over yet. Abbot is a creature of the Texas gas interests and, at best, can only appear to be trying to force the gas producers to winterize their pipelines and facilities.


"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."